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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #575 on: July 03, 2019, 06:28:00 pm »
Well, he didn't save Chrysler all by himself.  The taxpayers bailed out the company.  Iacocca just made sure the money didn't go down the rabbit hole. 
How very big of him to make sure it didn't go down the rabbit hole after he said, essentially, to American taxpayers, "You're not buying my cars the way I think you should, so I'm going to make you pay for them anyway."

That said, he did give us the Mustang. And he did at least show some stones in those Chrysler ads in which he'd say, "If you can find a better car, buy it."

RIP Mr. Iacocca.


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« Reply #576 on: July 03, 2019, 06:54:05 pm »
Arte Johnson, Master of Manic Characters on 'Laugh-In,' Dies at 90

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Arte Johnson, the comic best known for the hilarious characters he created for the 1960s NBC smash hit Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, has died. He was 90.

The 5-foot-4 Johnson, a master of ad libs, double-talk and dialects who was content to be a "second banana," died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of heart failure following a three-year battle with bladder and prostate cancer, his family announced.

Johnson cracked up Laugh-In audiences with his portrayal of Wolfgang, a former German storm trooper who muttered "Verry interesting" to the most cracked proposals (or, "Verry interesting … but stupid"). He said he got the idea for the character while watching Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan battle the Nazis in the 1942 movie Desperate Journey.

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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #577 on: July 03, 2019, 06:59:51 pm »
Arte Johnson, Master of Manic Characters on 'Laugh-In,' Dies at 90

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Favorite Wolfgang line:  "We didn't lose the war.  We came in second." 

Rest in peace, Mr. Johnson and thank you for the laughs.

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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #578 on: July 03, 2019, 07:29:56 pm »
The aged are far too dignified to be playing for such low stakes, the young don't care.  That's why we refuse to give up and fight the beasts when we get to be codgers.
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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #579 on: July 03, 2019, 07:35:42 pm »
Another favorite from Arte Johnson, as the dirty old man with Ruth Buzzi as Gladys:


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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #580 on: July 03, 2019, 08:24:24 pm »
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At 84, finished a book.  At 85, writing another one, "The New Testament - For Thinkers".  Teach a Bible Class, go to casinos and make money.  Help other people with the money I win.  At 84, Did teach English to Spanish Priest at our church until he was assigned to a church of his own.

I am too busy to die.  Am running for Miss America when I am 100.

Meanwhile, I'm having the longest "lazy streak" of my life....enjoying retirement too much. :yowsa:

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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #581 on: July 03, 2019, 08:43:12 pm »
Jared Lorenzen
Quarterback better known for his weight problems than his playing ability dies at 38

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Lorenzen's jersey number with the New York Giants

Lorenzen rose to fame as the starting quarterback of the Kentucky Wildcats college football team. He had a modest career in professional football, with his longest stretch being a four-year run as Eli Manning's backup on the New York Giants, during which he earned a Super Bowl ring for the team's upset of the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. He finished his career in the minor indoor leagues, playing for various teams in Kentucky, earning league MVP honors in 2011 before being forced into retirement due to injury in 2014.

As much as his play drew attention, his unusual weight for a player at the quarterback position was as much of an attention-grabber, as Lorenzen bore more of a resemblance to the offensive and defensive linemen in front of him than a quarterback. At his playing peak, he was 280 pounds and by the end of his career he was over 300. He soon ballooned to over 500 pounds near the end of his life, though he had lost about 100 of that by the time of his death from an acute infection that aggravated his existing heart and kidney issues.

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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #582 on: July 03, 2019, 08:47:16 pm »
How very big of him to make sure it didn't go down the rabbit hole after he said, essentially, to American taxpayers, "You're not buying my cars the way I think you should, so I'm going to make you pay for them anyway."
The way I read it... it was more like:

"I came into this company. It's flailing because their cars stink. You give me a loan, I'll give you better cars you'll actually want to buy, and I'll pay off the loan."

And he did.
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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #583 on: July 03, 2019, 09:07:13 pm »
The way I read it... it was more like:

"I came into this company. It's flailing because their cars stink. You give me a loan, I'll give you better cars you'll actually want to buy, and I'll pay off the loan."

And he did.

You mean K-Cars?
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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #584 on: July 03, 2019, 09:08:45 pm »
Kentucky football legend Jared Lorenzen dies at 38.

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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #585 on: July 03, 2019, 09:24:27 pm »
The way I read it... it was more like:

"I came into this company. It's flailing because their cars stink. You give me a loan, I'll give you better cars you'll actually want to buy, and I'll pay off the loan."

And he did.
If you mean the K cars, they did save Chrysler---for a short while. In time they were seen for what they really were: not very good cars at all. Chrysler didn't really start making good cars again until the "cab forward" cars from the late 1990s through the mid-2000s. (I had one, a 2005 Dodge Intrepid. Excellent car.)


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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #586 on: July 03, 2019, 09:33:30 pm »
If you mean the K cars, they did save Chrysler---for a short while. In time they were seen for what they really were: not very good cars at all. Chrysler didn't really start making good cars again until the "cab forward" cars from the late 1990s through the mid-2000s. (I had one, a 2005 Dodge Intrepid. Excellent car.)

Not sure I know what "cab forward" means?

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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #587 on: July 03, 2019, 09:39:49 pm »
Not sure I know what "cab forward" means?


That's what I had---but in black with a beige interior. Excellent car to drive and roomy enough for a big galoot like me.


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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #588 on: July 03, 2019, 10:07:58 pm »
Jared Lorenzen
Quarterback better known for his weight problems than his playing ability dies at 38

ny 13
Lorenzen's jersey number with the New York Giants

Lorenzen rose to fame as the starting quarterback of the Kentucky Wildcats college football team. He had a modest career in professional football, with his longest stretch being a four-year run as Eli Manning's backup on the New York Giants, during which he earned a Super Bowl ring for the team's upset of the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. He finished his career in the minor indoor leagues, playing for various teams in Kentucky, earning league MVP honors in 2011 before being forced into retirement due to injury in 2014.

As much as his play drew attention, his unusual weight for a player at the quarterback position was as much of an attention-grabber, as Lorenzen bore more of a resemblance to the offensive and defensive linemen in front of him than a quarterback. At his playing peak, he was 280 pounds and by the end of his career he was over 300. He soon ballooned to over 500 pounds near the end of his life, though he had lost about 100 of that by the time of his death from an acute infection that aggravated his existing heart and kidney issues.

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Awww man,  I remember when he played against UF, surprisingly fleet of foot for his size.   

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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #589 on: July 04, 2019, 12:01:39 am »
If you mean the K cars, they did save Chrysler---for a short while. In time they were seen for what they really were: not very good cars at all. 

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What they WERE,was exactly what they needed to be. Affordable,economical,and a good buy for the money spent.

IMHO,the one thing that hurt Chrysler more than anything in their history was the team of idiot engineers that came up with the brain fart known as "lean burn". Suddenly,you had slant 6 Valiants and Aspen stationwagons that HAD been getting over 20 MPH,getting 6 MPH and didn't have enough power to get out of the way of a bus. Lots of them running so hot in the thin air and high altitude that they would boil away the water in the radiator.

I was working at a Chrysler dealership out in Denver  in 77 and bought a used 1 year old Cordoba (BEAUTIFUL cars! Comfortable,too!) with the 360 engine in it,and the damn thing never got over 8 mpg. We even put it up on the lift in the service department with the engine running at different RPM,and walked around under it looking for gas leaks.

There were customers in their 60's who had never in their lives owned a car that wasn't a Dodge,or buying a new car that didn't come from that dealership swear off ever buying another one.

All this thanks to the Lean Burn,and if you took it off and modified the timing and adjusted the carb,you killed your warranty.
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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #590 on: July 04, 2019, 12:04:18 am »
Awww man,  I remember when he played against UF, surprisingly fleet of foot for his size.   

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Anybody have any idea why he weighed so much? Was it glandular?
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« Reply #591 on: July 04, 2019, 01:25:13 am »
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Anybody have any idea why he weighed so much? Was it glandular?
He was always on the heavy side (he liked to joke that he came out of the womb at 13 pounds) but it really was the leg injury he sustained at the end of his career that really sent his weight into a (almost literal) death spiral. Football was just about the only thing that was keeping him at a moderately overweight level as opposed to morbidly obese; when he couldn't move or exercise the way he used to, he just piled on the pounds.

He did have quite the appetite, too, from what I understand, though some of that might just be humor on his part.
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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #592 on: July 04, 2019, 02:35:50 am »
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What they WERE,was exactly what they needed to be. Affordable,economical,and a good buy for the money spent.
Except that they turned out not to be. I knew a few people who bought those K cars. More headaches than Bayer has aspirin.


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« Reply #593 on: July 04, 2019, 09:53:03 am »
You mean K-Cars?
Actually, the iconic vehicle of soccer moms everywhere, the minivan.
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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #594 on: July 04, 2019, 11:06:40 am »
Except that they turned out not to be. I knew a few people who bought those K cars. More headaches than Bayer has aspirin.

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And I know a few people that bought them and loved them.
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Holocaust survivor and beloved Hoosier Eva Kor dies at 85
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Published 11:28 a.m. ET July 4, 2019 | Updated 12:54 p.m. ET July 4, 2019

Holocaust survivor and beloved Hoosier Eva Mozes Kor died this morning just miles from the Auschwitz concentration camp, seventy-five years after first arriving there as a victim of torture under the Nazi regime.

Kor died at 7:10 a.m., local time, in Krakow, Poland. She was in the middle of leading an educational summer trip with the CANDLEs Holocaust Museum and Education Center. By guiding participants through the concentration camp haunted with her most difficult memories, Kor was doing what she did best: educating others by telling them her story.  ...

Known for her strength and advocacy after suffering in Auschwitz during World War II, Kor preached forgiveness, even to the Nazis who tortured her. ...

Kor was 10 years old when her family was taken to Auschwitz. Her mother, father and two older sisters were killed in a gas chamber, but Eva and her twin sister Miriam were chosen to become subjects for experimentation. The Nazi “Angel of Death” Dr. Josef Mengele tortured the twins for months, injecting them with mixtures of germs.

Decades later, she found a way to forgive him, and spent decades more telling her story.  ...
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« Reply #596 on: July 04, 2019, 05:09:48 pm »
Affinity Konar's novel, Mischling, is very loosely based on the imprisonment of Eva and her twin sister at Auschwitz. I read it, and it's excellent.
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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #597 on: July 04, 2019, 05:22:21 pm »
Actually, the iconic vehicle of soccer moms everywhere, the minivan.

I checked out the Caravan when it first came out.  It was only available in a 4-cylinder, so I asked the fellow at the dealership if somebody in Deetroit had been smoking crack.  An engine that can barely move a compact in a minivan.   *****rollingeyes*****
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« Reply #598 on: July 04, 2019, 07:25:02 pm »
I checked out the Caravan when it first came out.  It was only available in a 4-cylinder, so I asked the fellow at the dealership if somebody in Deetroit had been smoking crack.  An engine that can barely move a compact in a minivan.   *****rollingeyes*****

My  brother had a Grand Caravan, I think it was called.  Big thing.  He bought in the early 1990s and it ran well into the 2000s.  Great for road trip vacations.  Could really fit people, luggage, beer, souvenirs and a whole lot of other stuff in it.  And it could really move on an interstate.  I know nothing about cars, vans and such, but it was an awesome wagon.  Bro put plenty of miles on it.   

He has something else now -- not sure what.   Has fancy *bleep* such as a rear view camera in it, but I don't think it's anything nearly as good as  his old Caravan. 

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Re: Obituaries for 2019
« Reply #599 on: July 04, 2019, 08:09:03 pm »
My  brother had a Grand Caravan, I think it was called.  Big thing.  He bought in the early 1990s and it ran well into the 2000s.  Great for road trip vacations.  Could really fit people, luggage, beer, souvenirs and a whole lot of other stuff in it.  And it could really move on an interstate.  I know nothing about cars, vans and such, but it was an awesome wagon.  Bro put plenty of miles on it.   

He has something else now -- not sure what.   Has fancy *bleep* such as a rear view camera in it, but I don't think it's anything nearly as good as  his old Caravan.

I always suspected they changed the engine situation as soon as they started to get competition from Ford.  I could not have been the only potential buyer to laugh at them and walk away.  I would not be surprised if the sales guy lied to me about what's being made, just so he could push his inventory.
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